Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-11

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evening instead of Thursday as erroneous
y announced in Sundays paper.
Yesterday this section was treated to {
dose of della yed March winds. The dus
was simply binding on the roads out o
the city. especially TO the southeast.
Colonel Charles Curtis left for Helena
| Yesterday morning to resume supervision
OF the postofice there after q pleasant
| visit of a few days to his b1 other, the gen
ial John a. Curtis.
Arumor was yesterday circulated about
town that a movement is on loot looking
70 thu displacement OF a certain county Of
fetal on the ground OF non-residence
A special meeting of the Board of County
Commissioners will be held on Friday. May
IA. 1887. to consider the subject OF grant
ing right of way for street car lines ovel
county roads.
Tex. Edwards, formerly OF this city, is al
present in the Calico district of California
foreman for MI. Raymond, late of the Ray.
mond & Ely mine, Phoebe, Nevada. His
wife and family leave for there tomorrow,
The Turn verein recently received a sup.
ply of lad6 srs and other apparatus oi
which they stood in need. Some more
mattresses are on the road from the East.
The drum corps are making good Roadway
and working hard.
J. NJ. Shanefelter, the energetic house
mover and raiser, has started in on Granite
street and has a contract to raise to street
level all Of the houses on that street. 1t
will be a decided improvement in the looks
Of that portion OF the city.
Died in Basin Gulcb. May Z, 1887, Mrs.
l., j. Morrison, aged SO years and 21 days.
She was a native of Delaware County.
Ohio. The funeral will take place to-day
at Silver Star. Friends and acquaintance
are respectfully invited to attend.
The Parrot mine has closed for a couple
of days on ccoun of repairs. The boys
are a noticeable feature on the streets, and
help to swell the throng considerably when
they are out. Yesterday was pay day with
the Parrot, and business men generally de-
rived profit from the fact.
A regular meeting Of the Turn Verein will
be held tomorrow, at which very impor-
tant special business will come up for con-
sideration. The subjects of new hall, pic
mic arrangements and the anniversary Of
the society next month will require the at
tendance Of every member.
Mr.. Durand. OF South Butte, will reopen
his tramway the latter part OF this week.
He will begin banking wood at the head of
the Colorado f1ume. He is getting his
teams in order for hauling wood to the
Rarrot.
The Rifle Club held a meeting last night.
There was a very Him attendance, owing
to the strong attractions at the Grand
Opera House. No important business Was
transacted except the adoption of the
amendment to section 6 of the Constitu-
ton,
n p Eopror rac%ar1ov ra,oival n eh;o
ment of a carload of shovels from the st.
Louis Shovel Company. There were about
AZ" dozen in the lot. The car came
through 10 eight days. No other house
in Montana deals in these implements SO
extensively.
4 lady. accompanied bv two children
about s years of age, presented herself at
the Speculator mine one day recently and
ex pressed an unaccountable desire to be
allowed to descend into the mine on an
incline shaft on a bucket. The foreman
naturally refused and she became quite
indignant.
The Emmett Guard Band will parade the
streets on Saturday evening, calling atten-
ton to the mass-meeting OF citizens to be
held at the City Hall to devise ways and
July at which Mayor Frank will preside.
The suspension OF the fourth section of
the Inter State Commerce law applies to
Union Pacific as well as the Northern
Pacific as mentioned in yesterdays issue,
inilar inconvenience to the former road in
trapscontinental competition.
Mrs. James Edwards left last evening for
the Calico district, San Bernardino county,
California. to join her husband, through
The energetic efforts of the Shelf in raising |
unds to furnish her with transportation.
The County our was drawn upon for a
amount to complete the necessary
An old employee otfhe Parrot. Roland
Jones, a Welshuan, aged As, died Sunday
He was over five years there un-
Ter Superintendent Tibbey. He will be |
from Singers undertaking establish
nent to-day at 2 p. m. The Rev. Samuel
will conduct the services at the |
cemetery.
The d. ad animals-horseS, cows and
,ogs-strewing the flats southeast of town
would be a great deal better under than
bove ground at their present advanced
tage Of decomposition. If not too triling
matter for the County Commissioners
o attend to, something ought to be done
light away.
All boys wishing to jim the boys brigade
or the 4th OF July next a do SO by leav.
ng their names at Mr.. Abe Hyman's store,
orner Broadway and Main as soon as
When forty names are signed
apt. Shepherd will take them in hand and
rill them for the occasion. They will be
upplled with caps and sashes.
The First Montana Rifles held an cleo
ion for officers last Thursday, with the
result: Fred Loeber. Captains;
chm Stocker, First Lieutenant; Chris.
Second Lieutenant. They
ave sent to New York and to Reeds Sons,
Philadelphia, for catalogues Of uniforms.
business meeting will be held to-day.
In the Police Court yesterday Wm. H.
was tried for the petty larceny of a
pat and pair of shoes from Thomas Har
ey. He had only been out of Sheriff
prosecting care four or five days,
nd the Court recommitted him to the
A me guardianship for another period of
in calculation of a $25-and.costs
nd disorderlv. got SO and costs and in
will board with the Sheriff for a lew
ays.
A petition for letters of administration
n the estate of II. T. Burns was filed in
re Probate Court yesterday by B. w.
hesley. An unfortunate fatality seems to
ave visited the members of this family
II. T. Burns died at Meaderville
the twenty-sixth of April. His sister.
re-. B. w. Chesley, died last Friday, and
70 children we're lost from this family !.
at before her death. A child of Charles +,
urns, a brother also of MeadervilIe, died .
sterday morning, making five deaths in ;
70 weeks. .:7ass .